Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1887-11-19
MISCELLANEOUS.


DO not put too much trust in the
snan who praises you. --1tods Ssts'sgs.
AT . recent dinner in Washington,
given by Mrs. Stockton, each guest was
presented with q little cage containing
O canary bird Chicago Herald.
IA suburban justice recently settled
Acase In which boy committed an as
sault with pistol, by committing the
lad and ordering the pistol to be dis
charged. Little Chant.
The King Of the Sandwich Islands
has decorated King Malietoa Of Samoa
with the grand cross Of the royal order
Of the Star Of Oceana. Owing to his
general lack Of costume the latter mon
arch doesn't know how to pin it on
Chicago Neses.
An eighteen-year-old young man
Of Richie County, Ind, fell i'll with
measles. His grandmother. anxious to
effect speedy cure and bring them
out, !" placed him between two ticks Of
feathers, with hot stones at his feet and
. live sheep alongside him. He died.
An extremely useful cement for OK
perimental use is made from equal
quantities Of gutta-percha and white
pine pitch melted together. The COM
pound should be without Jumps. 1t inn
proves by remelting, and softans at
about the temperature of boiling water.
Boston Budget.
Deer in the far West are fast going
the way Of the buffalo. One dealer in
Jacksonville, Ore. in two months
bought 300 deer skins, and other deal
ers in Southern Oregon have bought as
many. These were all killed for their
skins only. contrary to law.-Spring-
field 10. Times.
An explorer Of prehistoric mounds
in Ohio has found carefully wrought
hatchets of soft coal associated with
human skeletons and bronze ornaments.
From the character of the material it is
evident that these were meant to simu-
late axes of flint, and were Of no use
excepting in burials. Colder Rssle.
1t is estimated that there Is at least
e5, 600. OK invested in fast horaes in New
York City. exclusive Of the animals kept
for racing purposes. The claim is made
that the owners of these fine creatures
are entitled to special consideration
from the city authorities, who are asked
to lay out Jerome avenue as q finished
driveway.-Boston Transcript.
"A dispatch from Algeria announces
the death of the greatest lion slayer that
the world has ever seen. Ahmed-bcn.
Ahmar, who was last year made
knight of the Legion Of Honor. He
killed eighty lions and as many pam
theirs from the time he learned to shoot |
until his departure for the happy hunt
ing grounds.
The total consumption Of cocoa is
DC, 600. 900 pounds per annuna. supplied
mainly by the West Indies and South
America. France heads the list with
&c, 100000 pounds; Spain comes next
with 16,0OO,0 200 pounds; then follow
England, $4,000. 900 pounds; and the
United States. 8. 500, 600 pounds.-N. r.
Post.
"A citizen of Little Falls. N. r., who
has carefully measured the snowfall
there last winter, says that he makes it
fourteen feet and nine inches, an un-
precedented depth. The spot where the |
snow was measured was in Q cedar |
swamp surrounded by trees. which was
protected in such q manner that no
snow blew in or out, and the figures are
supposed to be accurate.
AT recent meeting in Baltimore
Of the FreedmAn's Aid Society, an or
ganization for the education Of Meth
odist ministers among the negroes Of
the South, Secretary T. C. Hartzcll said |
that the colored people are increasing |
more by births than the whites are by
births and immigration combined. Five
hundred colored babies are born every |
twenty-four hours.-N r SEN.